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The mock work-trial brief
Use "Give yourself a clock, a brief and no escape hatch" to describe the practical rule.
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Cursor's paid work-trial is the round that actually decides the role, so the most impactful prep is to run that exact shape on yourself before they hand you the real one. Give yourself a clock, a brief and no escape hatch.
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The Loop You're Running on Yourself
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This capstone rehearses every stage; the paid work-trial is the one that decides it.
The DX Engineer trial is a maker-and-communicator exam in one sitting: you build something real on Cursor's developer surface and you ship the artifact that teaches it. A demo with no write-up fails the teaching half; a tutorial with no working code fails the maker half. Both have to land.